Planninghttp://hdl.handle.net/10539/116092015-08-02T18:22:41Z2015-08-02T18:22:41ZTransport and urban Development: Two Studies from JohannesburgWeakley, DylanBickford, Geoffreyhttp://hdl.handle.net/10539/174392015-04-17T08:41:02Z2015-04-17T00:00:00ZTransport and urban Development: Two Studies from Johannesburg
Weakley, Dylan; Bickford, Geoffrey
This booklet contains two research pieces which offer evidence-based perspectives on transport and its relationship to urban form. The first, by Dylan Weakley, explores the relationship between population density and modes of transport in Johannesburg using data from both the Gauteng City Regional Observatory (GCRO) Quality of Life Survey conducted in 2011 and the National Population Census of the same year. The research confirms a clear relationship between density and use of public transport but, mportantly, reveals that this relationship holds across all income groups.
The second piece, written by Geoffrey Bickford, helps us understand better the relationship between new transport infrastructure and other urban development processes. It explores the impact that the Diepkloof Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) station in Soweto is having on development in adjoining areas. The research confirms that the BRT is having a positive impact on the access of local residents to the wider city but does indicate that the impact of the BRT on the built form of neighbourhoods may be evolving only gradually, and will have to be analysed over a longer period.
2015-04-17T00:00:00ZPublic Art. Aesthetic, Evocative and Invisible?Harrison, KirstenPhasha, Potsisohttp://hdl.handle.net/10539/171502015-04-08T08:26:00Z2014-05-01T00:00:00ZPublic Art. Aesthetic, Evocative and Invisible?
Harrison, Kirsten; Phasha, Potsiso
This paper will focus on Inner City City-commissioned artworks and will explore whose reality the artworks represent in a constantly evolving and complex city and what contribution the pieces make, if any, to modifying public space3. The City’s Public Art Policy contends its objectives to be: ‘To celebrate Johannesburg’s unique character and identity and enhance the urban environment through a vibrant, diverse city-wide program
of public art.’(JDA, 2011:4). It is thus pertinent to examine whether or not city residents agree that this objective has been met. And further, should the objectives not include debate or interaction?
Research Report
2014-05-01T00:00:00ZRE-IMAGINING POST-APARTHEID YEOVILLE BELLEVUE; the journey and reflections of a resident activist/activist residentSMITHERS, MAURICEhttp://hdl.handle.net/10539/171492015-04-14T13:28:43Z2013-12-01T00:00:00ZRE-IMAGINING POST-APARTHEID YEOVILLE BELLEVUE; the journey and reflections of a resident activist/activist resident
SMITHERS, MAURICE
I fi rst began to work in Yeoville Bellevue in 1997/8. Fifteen years later, I’m refl ecting in this research report on what I and my fellow Yeoville Bellevueites have managed to achieve, individually and collectively, in that time. It is my own personal account and I accept that others may have a different story to tell. I hope it’s interesting and that we can all learn something from it. I hope even more fervently that it will, in some way, take the fi ght for a better Yeoville Bellevue (and a better inner city) forward.
Looking back in my archives, I found a table which I drafted in November of 1997 1, setting out matters that I thought needed attention. Amongst these were that:
• Yeoville Bellevue was in urgent need of a socio-economic development policy
• The Community Forum had collapsed and had not been replaced by a credible civic structure
• Parks in the area were unmanaged and in need of proper attention
• There were a number of illegalities and by-law infringements taking place
Research Report
2013-12-01T00:00:00ZCHANGING LAND USE ON THE PERIPHERY; a case study of urban agriculture and food gardening in Orange Farm.RICHARDS, ROBINTAYLOR, SUEhttp://hdl.handle.net/10539/171422015-04-14T13:27:15Z2012-08-01T00:00:00ZCHANGING LAND USE ON THE PERIPHERY; a case study of urban agriculture and food gardening in Orange Farm.
RICHARDS, ROBIN; TAYLOR, SUE
This study was undertaken after funding was received under a call for short-term consultancies to investigate a range of topics related to urban spatial transformation. The call was issued by the School of Architecture and Planning of the University of Witwatersrand under the NRF SARCHi initiative. This study investigates peri-urban food gardens and the role that food gardening plays in Orange Farm in addressing poverty and in improving food security. The study specifically looks at the effects of available open space on urban agriculture and food gardening in Orange Farm. It was hypothesised at the outset of the study that, being located on the peri-urban periphery of the city, Orange Farm is not yet densely populated or short of land for food gardening to be excluded as a livelihood option. This abundance of open land could, therefore, become an asset in an agriculturally-based strategy to target poverty in this priority region of the city.1..........
This study was undertaken after funding was received under a call for short-term consultancies to investigate a range of topics related to urban spatial transformation. The call was issued by the School of Architecture and Planning of the University of Witwatersrand under the NRF SARCHi initiative. This study investigates peri-urban food gardens and the role that food gardening plays in Orange Farm in addressing poverty and in improving food security. The study specifically looks at the effects of available open space on urban agriculture and food gardening in Orange Farm. It was hypothesised at the outset of the study that, being located on the peri-urban periphery of the city, Orange Farm is not yet densely populated or short of land for food gardening to be excluded as a livelihood option. This abundance of open land could, therefore, become an asset in an agriculturally-based strategy to target poverty in this priority region of the city.1......
The study was guided by two key research questions, namely:
1. What interest do Orange Farm residents have in urban agriculture and food gardening;
and can this interest be used as a spatial planning element as the settlement undergoes
increased formal development?
2. Are there spatial, land ownership, socio-economic and attitudinal constraints that currently affect the implementation of food gardening projects and urban agriculture in Orange Farm and, if so, which of these is the greatest obstacle to current and future urban agriculture and food gardening?
Research Report.
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